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Maybe you don't know they nerfed the hunter laptop story on the platform? Perhaps you are unaware of the limiting of right-wing political stuff before the elect
by stevenicr 6y ago
Maybe you don't know they nerfed the hunter laptop story on the platform? Perhaps you are unaware of the limiting of right-wing political stuff before the election? (in fairness I think they limited some of the 'also see this page engagement for left stuff at the time too(?) ) -
But they have had all sorts of half-truths, hate-the-other, posting and sharing of all sorts of outfits that promote left, center left and just look-down-upon people on the right - all flowing on the daily.
Certainly to drive engagement in several ways.
Conflict of interest? I feel yes and no - surely they get a seat at the we-can-bribe for attention table like all the other large companies, regardless of which side wins. They can spin it different ways depending on the outcome just fine.
As far as individual or groups of fbook employees conflict of interest aside from the company itself as an entity - I would assume a chunk of folks there were in tears for Hillary some years ago and likely did or tried to do some things to exact revenge for such.
- now did they hire an ex obama admin person to have their finger on the 'nerf-this-story button' like twitter did? or something similar that would skew at that kind of level? I don't know yet.
- lucian1900 6y agoThe US Democrats are right wing. It’s interesting how the Biden story was buried so quickly by both Twitter and Facebook, but that’s just part of a fight between two right-wing groups in the US.
- JasonFruit 6y agoWhile that may be true in some sense, you have to be able to see that completely ignoring the vernacular sense of the words 'left' and 'right' does nothing to help communication here. Literally nobody talks about the American political spectrum as divided between the far-right and kinda-far-right.
- lucian1900 6y agoIf you ignore the rest of us outside the US, sure. Yet Facebook and Twitter ban and censor all over the world. It’s relevant what ideology the censors have, in global terms.